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This week on the show is Jeff Goodell, who has been covering climate change for Rolling Stone for almost 20 years. He's got a new book out called The Heat Will Kill You First Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. I listened to approximately 30 seconds of this interview because you asked me to clean up some background noise. And it was the most scintillating random 30 seconds. Who was like, and then I almost died, but that didn't stop me from going back to motorcycle racing. That was the only thing I heard. Very good teaser for the episode.

Jeff Goodell is a climate change writer for Rolling Stone and the author of seven books. His new book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.

“I would not have said this even five years ago, but I have really come to see this now as a crime story. This is a kind of looting of the atmosphere of the earth, siphoning off resources and grossly profiting off of that at the expense of many other people—billions of people—on this planet. And I understand that’s a big thing to say, but I think it’s just pretty obviously true. … I don’t mean that personally that each one of them personally is a criminal. We are all complicit in this.”

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